There are often ‘issues’ that Aboriginal community members have with their children’s schools and teachers, and it is true that these can result from cultural misalignment and misunderstanding, based on assumptions that teachers make about children’s ‘Indigenous’ home circumstances, activities and family values. Our interviewees noted the responsibility they feel to uphold the ‘‘good name of the Indigenous community’’ within the school culture when attributions of lack of parental care, inappropriate lifestyle choices and personal moral deficiencies are suggested as reasons for students’ lack of social or academic success at school. As Jude (1998, p. 14) argues, ‘‘Where the set of norms which operate within their homes differs to that in operation in school, conflict is likely to occur’’. A teacher who is not only part of the school culture but who also has access to parents and others in the local Indigenous community (and who thus can identify with both sets of values where these differ) can very often be called upon to walk between the two: ‘‘At times I suppose you’re seen as the person who is the link between school and the Aboriginal community and can solve all their problems’’ (Interview, Carol, 2004).